Wrecks

Embark on a journey into the past with our coverage on Wrecks. We bring you the latest news and discoveries from the world of underwater archaeology, exploring sunken ships, planes, and relics that tell stories of history, adventure, and mystery.

From the most recent explorations to the ongoing preservation efforts, we delve into the captivating world beneath the waves.

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Toilets, showing how intact the Brtiannic remains (Richie Kohler)
Never-before-seen Britannic dive footage released
Barrel of a 6in gun on the bow, still offset on the starboard rail (Steffen Scholz)
Tech divers ID WW1 cruiser Bayano at 106m
Film-makers fined over Estonia wreck
Russia accused of using shipwreck as spy base
Freediving Wreck Hunting: Innovation, Safety & Discoveries in Kefalonia
Dom Robinson with tell-tale crockery retrieved from The Greek (Darkstar)
How Darkstar divers ID’d early steamship
Type UC II submarines, same type than the UC-47
Rammed! How UC-47 Was Caught at the Surface – Yorkshire Sub Hunters Solve 80-Year Mystery
Maritime archaeologists work on the Roman wreck (R Scholz, ICUA Zadar)
Divers finally clear exceptional Roman shipwreck
The team prepare for a second set of dives on the Seiner (from left) Rick Simon, Tom Packer, Joe Mazraani, Jennifer Sellitti, Eric Takakjian and Andrew Donn (Atlantic Wreck Salvage)
Mazraani’s final wreck ID: 60m-deep Seiner
Ship's wheel (WUAA)
King ‘ghost ship’ another coup for lake wreck-hunters
A deck beam probably from the wreck of the Queen Ulrika Eleonora (Mikael Fredholm, Vrak SMTM)
Centuries-old blockship wrecks ID’d in Sweden
Diver on the Frank D Barker wreck (Wisconsin Historical Society)
Divers eye 2 historic Great Lakes wreck finds
Research divers from Kiel documented 16 British cannon off Heligoland this summer (Florian Huber, Submaris)
Divers find 16 British guns off German island
ROV live images of the cargo sailing ship onboard the research vessel Kormoran (LAD in the RPS, Alexandra Ulisch)
Rare sailing ship one of 31 Constance wreck finds
Queen of Sweden (Historic Environment Scotland)
New protection for Scapa & Queen of Sweden shipwrecks
Recovering at-risk timbers from what is thought to be the 18th-century wreck of La Fortuna (ECU Program In Maritime Studies)
Divers find 1700s Spanish privateer among 4 shipwrecks
Sonar Imagery thought to be of the LW Crane (Wisconsin Underwater Archaeological Association / Brendan Baillod)
Wreck-hunters seek one steamer, find another
Joe Mazraani on his dive-boat Tenacious (Atlantic Wreck Salvage)
Wreck-diver Mazraani dies on Atlantic expedition 
Diver examining a wooden chest (MSDS Marine)
Kent protected shipwreck ‘the missing link’
Guns on IJN Teruzuki (Ocean Exploration Trust)
WW2 Japanese destroyer wreck find rewrites history
USS New Orleans in December 1942 soon after sustaining severe damage at the Battle of Tassafaronga (US Navy)
Iconic WW2 cruiser’s bow found in Solomons
A diver lights up the Vanguard name (HMS Vanguard 2023 Survey / Marjo Tynkkynen)
RN & Scapa museums get Vanguard artefacts raised
Dealers in looted gold or just ‘nice people’? Gay & Philip Courter
Best-sellers to bullion: Call for shipwreck gold trafficking trial
The London gun-carriage raised in 2015 is now on display (MSDS Marine / Cotswold Archaeology)
Southend hosts London shipwreck update
Diver at the HMS Coronation site (Coronation Wreck Project)
Fishing-pots damage protected Cornwall shipwreck
Telegraph from tragic shipwreck goes home
16th-century Ligurian-style jugs on the shipwreck site (DRASSM)
Deepest-ever shipwreck in French seas is 1500s trader
Items confiscated from the diver included a metal detector (Guardia Civil)
Diver charged with looting 2,000-year-old shipwreck
HMB Endeavour around 1794 by Samuel Adkins
Shipwreck confirmed as Captain Cook’s Endeavour
The doomed cannery ship Star Of Bengal
Divers raise bell from tragic fish-can shipwreck
The entire F-1 submarine has been modelled (Zoe Daheron / © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Depth-record WW1 sub found at 400m

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